Last year we looked at the Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 and postulated whether with its 400 shaders and half-height form factor it was fast enough to build a half-height HTPC that could rival the consoles for gaming performance.

Now however AMD have unleashed their latest ‘Northern Island’ based parts, the Radeon HD 6570 and 6670 – upping the number of shaders to 480 and Texture Units to 24 (from 20) while still both being half-height cards.

Anandtech have a full review which we recommend you check out if you’re interested in gaming on your HTPC….

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